Word: opinioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop. He is a fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said of him: 'He has made possible what I have done.' He is a loyal friend, a gracious enemy. In his presence conversation is rarely trivial and never low. He is not all things to all men; he is the same thing...
...That the Government, by increasing its own expenses, had led to extravagance in the state governments. In particular the Agent General scored the system of collecting taxation, which is carried out by the Federal authorities, who then allot a certain share to each of the states. Mr. Gilbert's opinion is that this system in itself leads to unnecessary spending...
...think Princeton will pulverize a Caldwell-less Yale team. But that's all you know about it. What a surprise you're for. As for Harvard and Brown, I really prefer not to say. For on that game little Joe and I have had our first big differences of opinion. And who knows, the little chap may be right. So I'll just keep still. Yale 16 Princeton 7 Dartmouth 34 Cornel l7 Michigan 13 Navy 7 Notre Dame 20 Army 6 Georgetown 27 Boston College 0 Tufts 20 Bowdoin 0 Williams 14 Amherst 3 N. Y. C. 13 Penn...
...pages to discussions of the undergraduate and his alleged difficulties, it is only fair that some space should be given to those who are concerned no with the grades of four courses a year but with the results of all of them. While Mr. "Pussyfoot" Johnson hazards his opinion on college drinking, while the students busy themselves with more pressing problems, the old questions of how to administer a college are not as yet completely solved...
...outcome of the trial, which gripped all Europe, was regarded by the Jews as establishing proof of the horrors perpetrated against their co-religionists in the Ukraine under the dictatorship of Simon Petlura; radical opinion rejoiced, but the conservatives saw justice flouted and the decorum of the French courts immeasurably impaired...